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Thursday, March 1, 2018

D-Star One Phoenix Among 11 Satellites Launched from Russia

A satellite using the D-Star digital protocol was
launched successfully from Russia
on February 1,following the loss of a similar cubesat in a launch failure last
November. According to the AMSAT News Service, the D-Star One Phoenix was one
of eleven satellites from Russia,
Germany and the United States
carried into orbit by the Soyuz rocket. D-Star
One Phoenix was a joint project of German Orbital Systems and iSky Technology
from the Czech Republic.

The AMSAT News Service also reports that a balloon
carrying a WSPR (Weak Signal Propagation Reporter) beacon, launched by AMSAT
Argentina, completed its second circumnavigation on February 11, passing over
Buenos Aires before heading out over the Atlantic for a third trip around the
Earth. The last reported WSPR and APRS spots for the balloon were on February
12 as it crossed the South Atlantic, so it is
uncertain whether it successfully made that third crossing.

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